After much internal debate, Blockworks Research has decided to abstain from this vote by dividing our voting power evenly across all applicants. This is to avoid any conceivable conflict of interest situations as two of the MSS applicants are employed at Blockworks Research.
We also contemplated casting votes and strictly excluding the two aforementioned applicants from consideration but ultimately decided to abstain since even with this method, there are situations where our voting rationale could theoretically be driven by self-interest instead of the quality of applicants.